Slow work?

[royston]

I'm starting a full heating install tomorrow so i guess ill have to turn some work down, hate turning work down.

 

[WHPES]

I've got a couple of new systems and boilers to fit coming up at the end of the month, plus a builder friend doing an extension wants an en-suite and heating loop. Bit quiet until then - Got a few small jobs to fill the time, a couple of oil tanks to replace and routine boiler services etc. Possibility of a large contract for a hotel after the holiday season.

Trouble is I can't always fill every day up all the time.

When I am on big jobs I still fit in small ones on evenings, early morning or weekends. I do go off to emergencies when on big jobs and I do inform the customer before I start that I have a few contract customers who I have to jump for!

 

[ballandco]

Im ticking over,but ive been speaking to a few companys I normally sub for and they havent got a lot,seems like the plumbing industry getting hit this year,

 

[SimonG]

Pretty busy up here. Bathrooms and oil installs. Fitting in small jobs/emergencies in evenings but leaving weekends free. Trying to not turn anything away but if people can't wait I tell them to phone somebody else.

 

[Dan the plumber]

Struggling here also, it varies from day to day, week to week but on a whole, it's very quiet!

Problem is I'm in limbo at the mo as haven't got my gas quals but without work coming in, ain't got the £££ to even think about getting them

If I have enough jobs coming in just to pay my weeks advertising it's a bonus!

Thank the lord the misses is the bread earner in my house...lol

 

[ecowarm]

She must be a plumber aswel

 

[mjt]

booking work into may now - just seems hit & miss for some folk - guess im just lucky

 

[tackleburger]

I'm starting a full heating install tomorrow so i guess ill have to turn some work down, hate turning work down.

Full heating job - why turn work down because of that? Apart from emergencies of course. Boiler and 6 rads do that in a day with a half decent apprentice including a re-pipe. How long will it take you?

I'm just finishing a bathroom off, then I have two boilers and a disabled toilet to do. So next week I will have a couple of days off. Then I start on the bathroom customer's ensuite, rough that out in a day or so then a three day 16 rad heating & unvented job then I don't know. Had a dreadful January and early February, worst in years, busy since mid Feb and I am really grateful for it. I hope you guys get some work soon.

 

[obseen16]

were getting quieter now. im still doing 5 days a week but im only booked about a week ahead at the mo. from december last year until now i was booked 6 weeks ahead constantly. as long as the phone keeps ringing i dont mind, a few lads up my end have just vanished, i spotted one in a builders merchants in the town next to ours working behind the counter, he was laid off and that was the only job he could find. the others i have no idea where they went.

 

[royston]

Full heating job - why turn work down because of that? Apart from emergencies of course. Boiler and 6 rads do that in a day with a half decent apprentice including a re-pipe. How long will it take you?

Probably 4 days, working on my own and i like to take things easy not rushing at 100mph lol.